On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Eddie McGreggor wrote:
> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:18:54 -0400
> From: Eddie McGreggor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: DynaActionForm Advantages
>
> But are DynaActionForm's compatible with JSTL?
>
Do you mean with the expression language stuff for getting and setting
properties? No, they are not. However, it would be feasible for Struts
tags to implement their own support for the expression language, and to
make that support work with DynaBeans in general.
> A discussion on taglibs-user made me think not:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=taglibs-user&m=102433015725228&w=2
>
> Eddie
>
Craig
> >On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Tell me again why I should use the standard form beans?
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm trying to understand because it seems to add complexity having two
> >> different ways of doing Form Beans. Why not polish up the Dyna bean stuff
> >> and then dump (er, deprecate) normal Form Beans?
> >>
> >
> >If DynaActionForm had been around from the very beginning, I doubt we
> >would have ever invented the standard ActionForm bean approach. At the
> >same time, I can't necessarily justify deprecating something that 100% of
> >existing 1.0 applications are required to use, especially when the rest of
> >Struts doesn't care at all which way you do things -- and you can even
> >make your Actions not care if you use PropertyUtils methods to get and set
> >the property values.
> >
> >> One advantage I will give the normal Form Beans is that they are easier for
> >> a newbie to pick up and learn. They shorten the learning curve to get
> >> productive with Struts initially. But if DynaBeans were made to be very
> >> easy, then this advantage may disappear as well.
> >>
> >
> >It's also a little premature to conclude that DynaActionForm beans are
> >good replacements for all scenarios where standard ActionForm beans are
> >currently used - at least in a 1.1 time frame. We need more real world
> >experience with them to validate this first.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> >
> >Craig
>
>
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